Being a beginner
In this day and age, it is incredibly difficult to be a beginner at anything as an adult. Especially in creative circles! Most people, when I tell them that I draw or write for fun, they immediately tell me something along the lines of “I wish I knew how to draw” or “I could never”. Let me tell you, nothing drives me more crazy than that mindset! No one, and I mean no one, is good at creating art of any medium from the beginning. Sure, there are people who might need less practice, but everyone starts at zero.
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No one is writing a masterpiece in one single go through, without any editing or scrapping storyboards. It’s the same with art, too. No one is painting the Sistine Chapel as a beginner. In fact, Leonardo Da Vinci had been painting his entire life, and he didn’t paint the Mona Lisa until he was about 33 years old! So many people that I have spoken with about art are so incredibly attached to the idea that because they aren’t good at it yet, they simply never will be. Frankly, that’s just not true.
Everything in life takes practice, and if you want to get better at it, you have to put in the time. These artists that you fawn over(rightfully so) put in thousands and thousands of hours of work into honing their skillset and learning their techniques. If there’s one thing that you could learn by reading through my writing, it’s hopefully that you can make mistakes, and being a beginner is the best place to be!
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